7
Nov
2008
Denial of the Gray Ghost!
In New Orleans, Fred Radtke has been at war with Graffiti Artists for over Ten Years.
Thanks to his “Operation Clean Sweep”, a non-profitable organisation, thousands of tags and images have been destroyed, blocked out by gray acrylic primer.
Rather than paint the walls, Mr Radtke and his team simply blot out the offending tags or murals, leaving gray blobs, earning himself the title of “The Gray Ghost”.
New Orleans was the site for a wealth of new works of Banksy Art this Summer, but sadly, most of these images have since been defaced or removed.
Mr Radtke has denied that he is responsible for buffing the Banksy Graffiti, but images have been obtained that are said to show the Gray Ghost at work on Banksy mural on St. Claude Avenue, an image of a child with a refrigerator for a kite.
Mr Radtke refuses to comment, asides from stating that Artists must go through a “Mural Review Board”, something Banksy apparently forgot to do.
Thankfully there are plenty of pictures of the amazing pieces of work, made in New Orleans this year and an array of Banksy Posters and Prints, mercifully free of uniform blobs of gray!
